The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-07-28
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
items OF Interest Gathered from Various
ss = Quarters.

Drougnt Is causing water famine in Man
chester, England.
Already 236 amendments have been of
tered to the Irish land bill.
Katkoff, editor of the Moscow Gazette,
is reported as dying.
Queen Kapiolani and party sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu yesterday.
Baron Seiliere, has been released from
the lunatic asylum at Paris and on his way
to America.
--- Twelve new cases of yellow fever have
appeared at Key West and one death has
occurred.
The jewclry establishment of Geo. w.
Fairchild, Bridgeport Conn.,, was robbed
of $4,000 worth of jewelry. No clue.
The Standard Oil property at Constable
Hook, N. j., has been destroyed by fire.
Loss $1,00O,0OO No insurance.
The cotton crop in the province of Men
ufiCh, Egypt, has been attacked by worms,
ana much of 1t has already been destroyed.
The President has appointed John G.
walker, Of Texas, to bc Secretary of the
Legation and Consul General at BOgOta.
Strikers are resuming work in the Penn
sylVania coke regions, and by Monday it is
expected that all the works will be in opcr-
alton.
The extensive bark extract works of j.
5. Young d Co., Baltimore, were totally
destroyed by fire last night. Loss about
$3.50, 900; fully insured,
John Tyler son Of President Tyler, for
a long time a clerk in the Treasury Depart
mcnt was stricken with paralysis in Wash
ington last night.
Briggs Swift's old pork house at Ciucin-
natl, recently rcmodclled for manufacture
ing purposes, was burned Tuesday, Loss
$l50,OO0. Partly covered by insurance.
Three hundred and nincty-six houses
have been destroyed by fire at Svcnziany,
i'll the government Of Wilma, Russia. -Four
thousand people were made homeless.
The Chamber of Deputies voted 500, 900
francs for the temporary resumption Of the
performances by the Opera Comiquc com
pany, whose theatre Was recently burned
The Paris RepuJliqye Hrancaise, COM
mcnting on the Anglo Turkish Egyptian
convention, pronounces it Il masterpiece of
dupiicity, intended to transfer Egypt en-
tirciy TO England.
Six bales of new cotton were received in
New Orleans by rail Tuesday from Cue
rotod; The cotton in two Of the bales was
raised by"Alrs. Lausanne. The remainder
VIZ" "hipPCu Wy buClClCS ~ 20.
VI. Jouvencal has presented to the Cham
Der OF Deputies bill proposing the fOrma-
lion OF n corps Of 30,0hn men Especially to
rr0'ecI inc Italian frontiers in the event Of
1taly assisting Germany against France
a French custom officer named Ritter,
at IaSny-Suhr, was stabbed in Il Quarrel
Dy commercial traveller named Andcrbe
The latter was arrested. Rittcr's wound is
atcS the incident
The big bear raid on Russian securities
is the talk Of Berlin now the money centre
of Europe. 1t is generally admitted that
this raid was part Of Gcrmany's retaliation
policy, because of Russia's adoption of an
anti German economic policy.
Gnmbrinus Assembly Of Knirhts of La
Dor, milwaukee,, Wis, is getting ready to
sccCdc from the Order on account of the
temperance views held by General Master
Workman Powdcrly.
An effort to corncr oatmeal is being made,
This is the meaLct development of the
spirit OF speculation which has pcrpctrated
SO many outrageS on the people of this
country.
senator elect Faulkner. of West Vir-
ginia, says his credentials are perfect and
that Governor Wilson's refusal to give him
certificate of election will amount to
nothing.
Tom OchiltrCC has moved to New York,
and will run for congress in one Of the CITY
districts next year. Tom will determine
which party he will run with rs soon rs he
picks out his district
Secretary Whitney has received an official
report from Captain Buncc of the recent
trial OF the battery of the Atlanta. The
result has been to throw doubt upon the
efficiency OF the gun carriages and mounts.
The boiler of f. l.. Chambcrlain's saw
mill, at Natchcz, Miss, exploded yesterday
afternoon, Wrccliing the mill and killing
Dorsey Scott, the cOlOred fireman. and in
Jurlng Chamberlain the engineer and pro-
prlctor, and two or three others.
Tlc cases against Nathan Kohn and his
niece, Emma Frankel, Of Winchester, Va,
inflicted for violation of the Virginia law
IN going to Baltimore, marrying and re-
turning to Winchester to reside, were con
tinucd until the September term of Court.
The elevator and malt house of Gcrhardt
Lang, at tennessee and jefferson streets,
Buffalo, n. Y, were burnId last nipht.
Loss $4,000. Two firemen were badly
hurt, being forced to jump from a,grcat
height to save their lives.
Tuttlc, Of Iowa, who proposed to insult
President Cleveland if he went to St. Louis,
discovered IA years after the war was over
that he had been hurt. lie then went to
work and made a grab for II years Of ar
rearagcs of pension.
The case of j. III. LOwrcy ct al. VS. the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta railroad
being an effort to break its lease to the
Richmond and Danvillc Sydicate in the
interest of certain stockholders, was de-
cidCd in Augusta yesterday by Judge RO
ncy that the lease must stand.
Fourteen monthsago there were 900 900
knights of Labor in the United States.
Now there are less than 100000. Friends
of the order profess not to be disturbed at
its decrease Of membership. They say it
will be more effective at its present size
than it could have been when it was larger.
The Paris la F5anre states that the
members Of the party of the Right, after
the Gchnabclc incident, proposed to Bou-
langcr that he head q mOnarchist coup
detot. He responded: "If ever | take
part in coup detat, it will be against mon
archi3ts and to maintain the republic"
The Bulgarian delegates who were sent
to notify Prince Ferdinand Of SAKE Coburg
GOtha of his election to the Bulporion